2. Planning and What’s New in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 for Virtualization Lai YoongSeng (Virtual Machine) Consultant Redynamics Asia SdnBhd

3. Planning Tool Features on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Agenda Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

4. Why even bother to plan ? Planning is Preparation

5. Fail to plan Plan to Fail

6. Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Inventory – Assessment - Reporting Get Free Download at http://www.microsoft.com/MAP

7. Customer Network MAP: How It Works Windows-based operating system (OS) migration? Server Consolidation? Virtualization? Assess customer’s environment agentlessly and recommend the right technologies MAP MAP Tool User (IT Pro/Partner) Report generation for different migration scenarios

8. DEMO MAP

9. How much memory does a web server require ? How much memory does a domain controller require ? Vendor said “Recommended 2GB”

10. Access application slow ! 2GB of memory not sufficient as suggested by vendor! System overloaded when peak time !

11. Application Memory Utilization

12. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory RemoteFX Microsoft RemoteFXleverages the power of virtualized graphics resources and advanced codecs to recreate the fidelity of hardware-assisted graphics acceleration, including support for 3D content and Windows Aero, on a remote user’s device. This allows for a local-like, remote Dynamic Memory allows the allocation of a range of memory (min and max) to individual VMs, enabling the system to dynamically adjustthe VM’s memory usage based on demand. This provides more consistency in system performance enabling better manageability for administrators

13. Example: Without Dynamic Memory Hyper-V (2 GB) Hyper-V (2 GB) Unused (8 GB) Unused (8 GB) Wasted Wasted VM 4- 2 GB VM 2- 4 GB VM 3- 4 GB VM 1- 2 GB Physical Server (16 GB RAM) Physical Server (16 GB RAM) ClusterNode1 ClusterNode2

14. Example: With Dynamic Memory Hyper-V (2 GB) Hyper-V (2 GB) Unused (2 GB) DM: 4 GB DM: 2 GB VM 2- 4 GB VM 4- 2 GB DM: 2 GB DM: 2 GB VM 3- 4 GB VM 1- 2 GB Physical Server (16 GB RAM) Physical Server (16 GB RAM) ClusterNode1 ClusterNode2

15. Example: When Live Migration Hyper-V (2 GB) Hyper-V (2 GB) Unused (8 GB) Unused (2 GB) DM: 2 GB VM 4- 2 GB DM: 2 GB VM 2- 4 GB VM 3- 4 GB VM 1- 2 GB Physical Server (16 GB RAM) Physical Server (16 GB RAM) ClusterNode1 ClusterNode2

16. Dynamic Memory Example 0 512 MB 1024MB Hot-add VM Memory Ballooned Memory VM Memory Hot-add Second VM Memory Parent Memory

17. Supported Guest Operating System Windows Server 2003 Web, Standard, Enterprise & Datacenter (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows Server 2003 R2 Web, Standard, Enterprise & Datacenter (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows Server 2008 Web, Standard, Enterprise & Datacenter (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows Server 2008 R2 Web, Standard, Enterprise & Datacenter (64-bit) Windows Vista Enterprise & Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows 7 Enterprise & Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit) 17

18. How to Upgrade? Ensure Virtual Machine are ready for the update Completely shutdown. No Saved State VM Merge Snapshot Update the Host to SP1 Beta Update the VM Integration Services

19. Enable Dynamic Memory Make sure the Virtual Machine is not running. Startup : Min 512 MB Maximum: default 64 GB

20. Memory Buffer Ideal target memory value is constantly change. Default is set to 20%

21. Memory Priority Memory priority determine who will get the memory. Rules of thumb:- Higher Priority will get memory 1st Taken from Lower Priority VM

22. DEMO Dynamic Memory & Remote-FX

23. Summary Use Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) Dynamic Memory Remote- FX

24. Q&A Questions & Answers

25. Resources Required slide Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=67240b76-3148-4e49-943d-4d9ea7f77730&displaylang=en Hyper-V: Dynamic memory Survival Guide http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/hyper-v-dynamic-memory-survival-guide.aspx Hyper-V: Remote-FX Survival Guide http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/hyper-v-remote-fx-survival-guide.aspx Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta http://technet.microsoft.com/en-my/evalcenter/ff183870(en-us).aspx MVUG (Malaysia Virtualization User Group) – Join us ! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=216237734803 Lai’s Blog – TechInsight Penang , KL Slide, Virtualization related, etc http://www.ms4u.info

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